<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is an emotion in motion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63324]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the universal language of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the universal language of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money makes the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money makes the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is incidental to law and order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is incidental to law and order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young and they are doing these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you blacked out for a little bit there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52685]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12155]]></link><description><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess   Of glory obscured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an excellent deal for us because Pedro gives us more options in midfield and brings with him experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35076]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an excellent deal for us because Pedro gives us more options in midfield and brings with him experience in European competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. [Lat., Veritatis absolutus sermo ac semper est simplex.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32879</guid></item></channel></rss>